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"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire." George Monbi...

Just four years after the worst shock to the economy since the Great Recession, U.S. corporate profits are stronger than ever. In the ...

One hundred and forty years of football history has been brought to an end. Rangers, who played their first games in 1872 and have been S...

Scotland's biggest music festival, T in the Park, was worth more than £40 million to the Scottish economy last year, according to organ...

ZhengYonggang's $600m (£377m) fortune was built by taking a state-owned firm into the private sector. Zheng does not owe his success to...

Up to five million homeowners could be in negative equity by the end of this year if house prices continue to fall, research has claimed And...

With South Korea about to enter its first recession in a decade and exports suffering their biggest ever drop, the country's health mini...

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams criticises those who buy and sell debt solely for their own profit. Dr Williams attacks "unbr...

The Socialist Party in its case for socialism have argued that there is an economic cause to crime , rather than an innate human nature reas...

Credit crunch ...food inflation ...property price crash ...Yet the UK's super-rich have never been richer reports the BBC . The richest ...

From Ian Bell of the Sunday Herald Lots of food, lots of hunger: it’s a market thing. Last week the International Assessment of Agricultural...

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The richest 10 per cent of the UK population increased their share of the nation's marketable wealth (excluding housing) from 57 per cen...

We have reported on the rise in food prices that many commentators blame on changes in supply and demand for grain but the Times reports t...

The UK should "celebrate the fact that people can be enormously wealthy in this country", Business Secretary John Hutton is expec...

Scottish investment trust boards are still open to the charge that they recruit their members primarily on the golf course, according to re...

There could be thousands more heart attacks if the Northern Rock crisis was repeated at other banks across the UK, a Cambridge University st...

Most adults in the UK believe that children's well-being is being damaged because childhood has become too commercial, a lifestyle poll ...